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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court Daisy Frederick, Respondent, v. Daniel Lee McDowell, Petitioner.

Appellate Case No. 2022-001480

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from Marlboro County Paul M. Burch, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2024-MO-012 Heard May 2, 2024 – Filed May 22, 2024

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

R. Hawthorne Barrett, of Turner Padget Graham & Laney, PA, of Columbia, for Petitioner.

Robert Brian Critzer, of Wyche, PA, of Columbia; Kaye Gorenflo Hearn, of Wyche, PA, of Conway; and Eric Marc Poulin and Roy T. Willey, IV, both of Poulin, Willey, Anastopoulo, LLC, of Charleston, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: We issued a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision in Frederick v. McDowell, Op. No. 2022-UP-303 (S.C. Ct. App. filed July 20, 2022). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

BEATTY, C.J., KITTREDGE, FEW, JAMES and HILL, JJ., concur.